The internationalization of financial markets is one of the focal points in the discussion about recent globalization trends. These discussions suggest that capital can move freely between countries. However, there is ample evidence that national borders do matter and that there are many...

The United States: why the trigger? -- The Bush and Obama administration's response -- From the American to the European crisis -- The Eurozone's sovereign debt crisis -- Russia: not an exceptional country -- China: from crisis management to rebalancing -- Japan, South Korea and India: impact...

"This book provides a comprehensive investigation of the messy and crisis-ridden relationship between the operations of capitalist finance, global capital flows, and state power in emerging markets. The politics, drivers of emergence, and diversity of these myriad forms of state power are...